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S. S. BAKER. 
cell infiltration of the alveoli, respiratory mucous membranes 
reddened, tumorfied and covered with mucous (or muco-pus). 
Brain and spinal cord oedematous ; liver bright yellow and of a 
nutmeg appearance, and studded with brick-red and brownish- 
red streaks and spots, these appearances being due to fatty 
degeneration. Spleen enlarged and with a marrow-like infil¬ 
tration. Kidneys congested and fatty; but this state is not 
constant. The digestive and urinary mucous membranes pre¬ 
sent patches of hyperaemia and ecchymosis. Muscular tissue of 
heart pale and commencing to undergo fatty degeneration. 
Blood watery; serum < ontains many globular bacteria, isolated 
or in ball-like clusters, or adherent to both red and white 
corpuscles; also, in addition, some delicate and staff-shaped 
bacteria. The liver cells and tubuli uriniferi full of bacteria. 
The urine brownish red and muddy, containing large corpus¬ 
cles and epithelial cells, and many bacteria of both kinds, 
either free or enclosed in the blood corpuscles or in the cells. 
Twenty-four hours after death the bacteria are very num¬ 
erous, but disappeared when putrefaction commenced. 
In the earlier stages the lungs are found in a state of 
oedema, later they show the signs of broncho-pneumonia, ul¬ 
ceration or infiltration of the nasal membranes, and of that of 
the intestines, especially the ileon, and affecting particularly 
the solitary glands, and Payer’s patches, congestion and dropsy 
of the pericardium, swelling of the lymphatic glands, especially 
those of the mesentery, and engorgement of the gall bladder 
with thick bile, have been noted. Spots due to ecchymosis are 
very frequent on the different serous membranes. 
